When I opened the door, Andrew was standing there like a remedy for heart palpitations. Or maybe he made them worse. It was hard to tell.

Maybe that's what I needed. Another tattoo. Some pain on the outside to ease the pain on the inside.

My tattoos, like most people's, were reminders, badges of personal experiences. Yes, I might wear them on my skin for the world to see, but their meaning was a little too personal.

I'm surprised I could actually talk with how much I was grinning.

I think you're something wonderful.

The most welcome and painful moments of the life is within marriage.

Time is exactly the amount of wealth God gives to each and every one of us on a daily basis

When you think about the day-to-day, positive impact on the lives of U.S. citizens, there is no relationship that we have in the world that is more important than our relationship with Canada.

The idea of power as a possession, whose asset can be banked and drawn on when needed, comes easy to a society whose rules grow out of the methods of finance capitalism.

I wasn't playing Nixon's satirical stick figure. I was playing Nixon the man. As an actor, I felt I had to get to the deeply flawed humanity of the guy.

I cannot understand why poetry is not taught at schools as a way of seeing, a quick, untiring path to essentials.

I think the challenge is to takedifficult and painful times and turn them into something beneficial, something that makes you grow.

Literature is a splendid mistress, but a bad wife.

Not everybody can identify a purpose in life. But when you do, and when you pursue it, you will be living the kind of life you feel you were meant to live. And what's more, you will be happy.

Your miracles are an inside job. Go there to create the magic that you seek in your life.